In the beginning there was laughter and I was born at a very young age, and already my life was a joke. Joke in the Webster’s Dictionary, has many meanings but the one that fits my life is the one that says, “a joke is something not to be taken seriously.” I have never taken my life seriously, even from the beginning. You see, I was only 4 pounds 12 ounces at birth, and everyone, mostly my family, and my friends, laughed at me. I looked like a bird, and a scrawny bird at that. The doctors should have treated me as a premature baby, but they wanted to see if I could live without that treatment.

I come from mixed parents, one mother and one father. I was so surprised at my birth that I didn’t speak for a year and a half. Right at the beginning I got the joke gene, “don’t take your life too seriously.” I realized that my life was a joke and a warning for other people. I smiled and laughed all the time, even though I was a sickly baby. When I was about a year old my parents took me to the hospital because I was very sick, the nurse looked at me and said “she doesn’t look sick,” whereupon I smiled and threw-up all over the nurse, and then really laughed. My life is a joke, and that’s how I want it. I don’t want to take my life or myself too seriously.

This is the start of a book that I have written entitled. "Laugh and Live Happier: P.L.A.Y.S for Live."

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